This week I came across 3 interesting houses in different parts of the country that all happened to have been built in the same year: 1895. Take a look!
1. A Neoclassical Colonial Revival in Melrose, Massachusetts
This old mansion has been completely renovated. It has 6 bedrooms, 4 baths, and 7 fireplaces. Oh, and there’s a Music Room, too:
Asking price for this gem is $1.35 million. For more photos and info, check the listing by Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty.
2. Jack Nicholson’s Green-Gabled Victorian in Aspen, Colorado
The actor’s 5,790 square-foot winter retreat has 5 bedrooms and 8 baths, but I couldn’t find photos of any of them. In fact, this is the only interior photo of it in the listing. (Boo!)
If you want to live like a celebrity, you’d better be prepared to write a big check: asking price is $15 million. For more photos and info, visit Realtor.com.
3. A Charming Church Hill Townhouse in Richmond, Virginia
It has 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths. One of my favorite features is the fireplace in the kitchen. Always wanted one of those!
Asking price is $393,000. For more photos and info, check the listing with Paul Collins of Keller Williams Realty.
Looks like 1895 was a good year for houses. Do you have a favorite?
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the neoclassical colonial revival is my favorite. it looks much more like ‘home’ than the other two. (0:
these are all gorgeous! i used to live in melrose & it’s a beautiful and charming little town with some absolutely incredible victorian houses. seeing this one made me smile!
I like the townhouse in Virginia the best. Lots of good details, yet very liveable. Pretty kitchen!
Love the kitchen, with the fireplace and the big scrub-top table rather than an island.
The Church Hill townhouse – but mostly because that’s the neighborhood we lived in before moving to Ohio! I miss that area, but we still own our house there; we might get back there one day!
My family used to live on East Grace in the late 60s and early 70s. It was hardly historic then. Makes me ill to think of the gentrification that had to happen for this beauty to become what it is now.
Nice! I love old houses. I like #1 and #3 best. The second one is a bit too plain and boring for me :p
I love the rowhouse. But you know, we have a fireplace in our kitchen, and it is merely for decoration. That room is the warmest in the house!
Lovely houses. Too bad Jack won’t share his pictures. Maybe there is an axe lodged in the bathroom door! Lol.
I love #1! But what a view in Aspen!!
church hill richmond, va
love front door and window above with house numbers . so cute
Oh I hate when there are little to no interior pictures!! (speaking of Jack’s house is Aspen) Aspen is so gorgeous but sooooooo pricey! Apparently a lot of folks there have “heated driveways” so they don’t have to snow shovel in the winter!
The others are very attractive well’kept homes.
I vote for the townhouse in Richmond. It’s beautifully renovated. I love Richmond, and it is stuffed with historic houses. My daughter is in art school there and lives in a historic row house near VCU but hers is priced for students and not nearly as nice as this one.
The colonial revival is definitely my favorite, but did anyone else notice the views from window in Jack Nicholson’s Aspen victorian? I can see why it’s the only interior photograph of the house…
Richmond townhouse, please! Huh – and I usually have expensive taste! That seems pretty reasonable. Richmond is a great town.
Wow! The neoclassical colonial revival seems like a bargain with all its beauty and features.
The Richmond townhouse is my favorite.
I lived in Richmond for 11 years, sot that one is my nostalgic favorite. Church Hill is a really historic area, and there are some lovely houses there.
I just love that Richmond townhouse. Totally my style and my type of town. As much as I would love to live in Aspen, 8 toilets are just too many for me to clean.
What a fun post! I loved seeing the different old hosues from the same year. Can this become a regular thing?? Lol
Well, the first one is beautiful, but too elegant for my taste. Jack’s house doesn’t look
very inviting, at least from that one pic. So I pick house #3. Love the fireplace in the kitchen, too. I enjoy your blog very much.
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i live just outside of richmond and have driven by these gorgeous homes and always wondered the price and what the inside looked like. thanks for sharing. they just ooze character!
The townhouse is very charming. I have to say the Nicholson house would be worth it for the view alone!
I’ll take the Richmond house. There are rooms that remind me so much of my grandparents’ home, but it was a large stucco house of the same era.
That neoclassical house is to die for. What a gorgeous place. It’s definitely my favorite out of the three.
I love Victorian homes, but for some reason, I don’t care for Jack Nicholson’s.
The third house is charming and I love how the time period was kept intact.
Be still my heart. 1985 was a good year for houses. That first house is amazing. Why on earth are those people leaving? They have decorated it beautifully, it’s formal yet still inviting. And they use the rooms to have fun: pool, workshop that’s really a workshop. I’d want them to leave it just as it is. That would be a screaming deal for a house like that in this neck of the woods.
Give me Richmond! Used to live in that great town. Houses are really cheap compared to Alexandria. That would be 7-800,000 here.
Here’s a sample
http://oldtownalexandria.patch.com/articles/just-listed71412#photo-10656754
Interesting! Thanks, Pat!
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The neoclassical house is like a wedding cake, beautiful but ever so slightly overdone. However, I do appreciate the craftmanship that went into the paintwork in the ceilings and walls and the carpentry. Did you see the floors? Wonderful. The interior is too formal for my tastes, except for the workshop, which is a dream.
I also like the Richmond town house, it has clean lines and yet it’s homey.
I cannot say anything really about Jack’s house except that the views must be spectacular. I’d love to see some more interior photos.
15 million for a house who’s street comes right to my living room window? (or so it appears) NO THANKS! But that Colonial Revival? Oh my!! L<3ve!
I used to live down the street from the home in Richmond..Church Hill. Church Hill is one of the oldest spots in Richmond and the architecture in this area is breath taking. I used to love to go for walks in the evenings after work along the cobblestone streets….almost made me feel like I was in England. Richmond is very rich in history and if you like older home styles, this is a great place to live…that is affordable with lots to do!
WoW that neoclassical is delicious!!!
I am partial to Richmond house. My grandmother used to live in Church hill on north 25th street in an old stone townhouse across from St. Johns Church.
Glad to see restoration in these vintage homes.